რკინება
Old Georgian
Etymology
From Proto-Georgian-Zan *rken-, *rkin- (“to fight, wrestle”). Compare possible relation with Old Georgian რკინაჲ (rḳinay).
Noun
რკინება • (rḳineba)
- combat, battle
Verbal noun
რკინება • (rḳineba)
- verbal noun of ერკინება (erḳineba)
Synonyms
- ბრძოლა (brʒola)
Descendants
- Georgian: შერკინება (šerḳineba), რკინება (rḳineba)
- → Mingrelian: რკინაფა (rḳinapa) (possibly)
References
- Abulaʒe, Ilia (1973), “რკინება”, in Ʒveli kartuli enis leksiḳoni (masalebi) [Dictionary of Old Georgian (Materials)] (in Georgian), Tbilisi: Metsniereba, page 348
- Klimov, G. A. (1998) Etymological Dictionary of the Kartvelian Languages (Trends in linguistics. Documentation; 16), New York, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, page 159